The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-21

IT'S donem My friend, Rev. Oh.
Joseph H. Jones, OF Philadelphia, trans
lated spirit now, wrote a book entitled
Man, Moral and Physical" in which he
shows how different the same things may
appear to different people. He says; After
the great battle on the Mincio in 1859,
between the French and Sardinians
on one side and the Austrians
on the other, so disastrous to
the latter, the defeated army retreated, fol
lowed by the victors. A description of the
march of each army is given by two cor
respondents of the London Times, one of
whom travelled with the successful host, the
other with the defeated. The difference in
views and statements OF the same place,
scenes and events is remarkable. The former
are said to be marching through beautiful
and luxuriant country during the day, and
at night encamping where they are supplied
with an abundance of the best provisions,
and all sorts of rural dainties. There is
nothing of war about the proceeding except
it's stimulus aud excitement. On the side or
the poor Austrians it is just the reverse. In
his letter Of the same date, describing the
same places and a march over the same
road, the writer cSn scarcely find words to
set forth the suffering impotence and dis
gust existing around MIN. What was pleas
ant to the former was into!erable to the lat
ter. What made all this differencel asks the
Journalist. 'One condition only: The French
are victorious the Austrians have been de-
feated. The contrast may convey dis
tinctive idea of the extent to which moral
impressions affect the efficiency or the sol
der"
So. nv dear brother, the roai you are
travelling is the same you have been travel
ing long while but the difference in your
physical conditions makes it look different,
and therefore the two reports you have
given of yourself are as widely different as
the reports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward Payson, some
times so far up on the Mount that it seemed
as if the centripetal force of the earth could
no longer hold him, sometimes through
physical disorder was so far down that it
seemed as if the neither world would clutch
him. Glorious William Cowper was
as good as good could be, and
will be loved in the Christian Church
as long as it sings his hymn beginning:
There is a fountain filled with blood" and
his hymn beginning: 20 for closer walk
with God. nand his hymn beginning: "What
various hindrances we meet, and Ills hymn
beginning: God moves in a mysterious
way" Yet so was he overcome OF melan-
choly, or black bile. that it was only
through the mistake of the cab driver, who
took him to the wrong place, instead Of the
river bank, that he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition SD nightly affected
-
tumty this gives TO the Christian physician,
for he can feel at the same time both the
pulse of the body and the pulse of the soul,
and he can administer to both at once, and
If medicine is needed he can give that, and
if spiritual counsel is needed he can give
that-an earthly and divine prescription
at the same time-and call on not only the
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy of
heaven. All, that is the kind of doctor
want at my bedside when | get sick, one
that can not only count out the right num-
Der of drops, but who can also pray. That is
the kind of doctor have had in my house
when sickness or death came. | do
not want any of your profgate
or atheistic doctors around nv loved
ones when the balances of life are trembling.
A doctor who has gone through the medical
college, and in dissecting room has traversed
the wonders OF the human mechanism, and
found no God in any of the labyrinths is a
fool, and cannot doctor me or mine. But,
oh, the Christian doctors! What comfort
they have been in many of our households.
And they ought to have a warm place in
our prayers, as well as praise on our tongues
Dear old DR.. Sklllman My fathers doctor,
my mothers doctor, in the village home
He carried all the condolences of all
the families for ten miles around
We all felt better as soon as we saw him en-
ter the house His face pronounced beati-
tude before he said word. He welcomed
all of us children into life. and he closed
the old peoples eyes when they entered the
last slumter l think / know what Christ
said to him when the old doctor got through
his work. l think he was greeted with the
words: Come in, doctor. | was sick and
We visited me-" | bless God that the mum
Der of Christian physicians is multiply iag,
and some of the students of the medical col
leges are here to-day and hail you and |
n
beautiful, heaven descended work OF a
Christian physician and when you take your
diploma from tue Long Island eiical Col
lege, to look after the pcrishable body, be
sure also to get a diploma from the skies to
look after the imperishabe soul. Let all
Christian physicians unite with
ministers of the Gospel in persuading good
people that it is not because God is against
them that they sometimes feel depres ed
but because of their diseased body | SUD
pose David, the psalmist was no more pious
when he called on everything human and
angelic, animate and inanimate, and from
snowflake to hurricane. to praise God, than
when he said; "Out of the depths of he'll
have | cried unto Thee, y Lord,n or that
Jeremiah was any better when he wrote his
Prophecy than when he wrote his "Lamenta-
TONS or that Job was any better when he
said: II know that my RedeeUer hveth,"
than when covered all over with the pus-
tlues of elephantlasiS he sat in the ash IS
scratching the scabs off with broken piece
of pottery; or that Alexander Crudeu, the
Concord st, was any better man when he
compiled the book that has helped ten thou
sand students OF the Bible, than when under
the power of physical disorder he was hand
cn1ed and rait-waistcoated in Bethnal
Green Insane Asylum.
"Oh," saws some Christian man, ''no one
ought 10 allow physical disorder to depress
his soul He ought to live SO near to God as
TO be always in the sunshine" Yes, that is
good advice; but | warrant that you, the
man who gives the advice, has sound liver
Thank God everyday Tor healthful hepatic
condition, for, just as certainly as you lose
it, you will sometimes like David, and like
Jeremiah, and like Cowper, and like Alex
ander Cruden, and like ten thousand other
invalids, be playing dead march o. the
same organ with which now you play u
Toceata. My object at this point is not
only to emolliats the criticisms of the well
against those in poor health, but to show
Christian people who are atrabilarious what
is the matter with them. Do not charge
against the heart the crimes OF another
portion of your organism. Do not conclude
that because the path Of heaven is not ar
bored with as fine foliage, or tie banks
beautifully showed under with exquisite
chrysanthenums as once that therefote you
are on the wrong road. The road will bring
you out at the same gate whether you walk